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Standard Markovian optimal stopping problems are consistent in the sense that the first entrance time into the stopping set is optimal for each initial state of the process. Clearly, the usual concept of optimality cannot in a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-05 Sören Christensen , Kristoffer Lindensjö

In this article we consider an optimization problem of expected utility maximization of continuous-time trading in a financial market. This trading is constrained by a benchmark for a utility-based shortfall risk measure. The market…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2016-10-28 Oliver Janke

We provide analytical results for a static portfolio optimization problem with two coherent risk measures. The use of two risk measures is motivated by joint decision-making for portfolio selection where the risk perception of the portfolio…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2021-01-19 Tahsin Deniz Aktürk , Çağın Ararat

In this paper we derive a novel characterization result for time-consistent stochastic control problems with higher-order moments, originally formulated by Wang et al. [SIAM J. Control. Optim., 63 (2025), 1560--1589], and newly explore many…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-19 Yike Wang , Jingzhen Liu , Jiaqin Wei

We consider a multi-stock continuous time incomplete market model with random coefficients. We study the investment problem in the class of strategies which do not use direct observations of the appreciation rates of the stocks, but rather…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2015-02-10 Nikolai Dokuchaev

A moment constraint that limits the number of dividends in the optimal dividend problem is suggested. This leads to a new type of time-inconsistent stochastic impulse control problem. First, the optimal solution in the precommitment sense…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-25 Sören Christensen , Kristoffer Lindensjö

This paper investigates the problem of maximizing expected terminal utility in a (generically incomplete) discrete-time financial market model with finite time horizon. In contrast to the standard setting, a possibly non-concave utility…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2014-09-04 Laurence Carassus , Miklos Rasonyi

We study the time-inconsistent linear quadratic optimal control problem for forward-backward stochastic differential equations with potentially indefinite cost weighting matrices for both the state and the control variables. Our research…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-15 Qi Lü , Bowen Ma

We consider optimal consumption and portfolio choice in the presence of Knightian uncertainty in continuous-time. We embed the problem into the new framework of stochastic calculus for such settings, dealing in particular with the issue of…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2014-01-09 Qian Lin , Frank Riedel

Time inconsistency is prevalent in dynamic choice problems: a plan of actions to be taken in the future that is optimal for an agent today may not be optimal for the same agent in the future. If the agent is aware of this intra-personal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-06 Xue Dong He , Xun Yu Zhou

The optimization of large portfolios displays an inherent instability to estimation error. This poses a fundamental problem, because solutions that are not stable under sample fluctuations may look optimal for a given sample, but are, in…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2015-05-14 Susanne Still , Imre Kondor

An iterative learning algorithm is presented for continuous-time linear-quadratic optimal control problems where the system is externally symmetric with unknown dynamics. Both finite-horizon and infinite-horizon problems are considered. It…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-10 Hamed Taghavian , Florian Dorfler , Mikael Johansson

We use classical tools from calculus of variations to formally derive necessary conditions for a Markov control to be optimal in a standard finite time horizon stochastic control problem. As an example, we solve the well-known Merton…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Matthew Lorig

This paper is concerned with a time-inconsistent stochastic optimal control problem in an infinite time horizon with a non-degenerate diffusion in the state equation. A major assumption is that people become rational after a large time.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-19 Qingmeng Wei , Jiongmin Yong

We consider a utility-maximization problem in a general semimartingale financial model, subject to constraints on the number of shares held in each risky asset. These constraints are modeled by predictable convex-set-valued processes whose…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2013-02-25 Kasper Larsen , Gordan Žitković

We study a time-inconsistent singular stochastic control problem for a general one-dimensional diffusion, where time-inconsistency arises from a non-exponential discount function. To address this, we adopt a game-theoretic framework and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Andi Bodnariu , Kristoffer Lindensjö , Neofytos Rodosthenous

This paper studies an optimal investment and consumption problem with heterogeneous consumption of basic and luxury goods, together with the choice of time for retirement. The utility for luxury goods is not necessarily a concave function.…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2022-06-09 Hyun Jin Jang , Zuo Quan Xu , Harry Zheng

We consider the task of controlling a battery while balancing two competing objectives that evolve over different time scales. The short-term objective, such as arbitrage or load smoothing, improves with more battery cycling, while the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-15 Obidike Nnorom , Giray Ogut , Stephen Boyd , Philip Levis

We combine forward investment performance processes and ambiguity averse portfolio selection. We introduce the notion of robust forward criteria which addresses the issues of ambiguity in model specification and in preferences and…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2014-11-17 Sigrid Kallblad , Jan Obloj , Thaleia Zariphopoulou

Mathematical Selection is a method in which we select a particular choice from a set of such. It have always been an interesting field of study for mathematicians. Accordingly, Combinatorial Optimization is a sub field of this domain of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Anurag Dutta , K. Lakshmanan , A. Ramamoorthy , Liton Chandra Voumik , John Harshith , John Pravin Motha